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Silke Ballath, Inka Gressel, Nora Landkammer, Sandra Ortmann, Bernadett Settele

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Silke Ballath

Silke Ballath graduated in cultural studies in Hildesheim and gallery education in Marseille. In 2003, she was among the founders of the curatorial team A7 and organized exhibitions and the gallery education program. She wrote her thesis on socially restricted access to contemporary art in public space. She lives and works in Berlin as a gallery educator and freelance writer.

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Inka Gressel

studied applied cultural studies in Lüneburg, Madrid, and Berlin. She worked as a research assistant at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and at documenta 12. She has contributed to this publication both as an editor and author.

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Nora Landkammer

studied art and communicative practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Hispanic studies at Vienna University. She worked as a gallery educator at Kunsthalle Wien and organised projects in collaboration with the group MIK. She currently works as a research assistant at the Institute for Art Education, Zurich University of the Arts.

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Sandra Ortmann

Sandra Ortmann is an artist and activist, as well as a member of the queer/feminist all-girl boy group Sissy Boyz, www.sissyboyz.de. She performs in burlesque shows with Ärzte ohne Ängste. She was an agent of the Secret Service for the 5th Berlin Biennial and currently works as an assistant at Museum Fridericianum where she is responsible for education.

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Carmen Mörsch (ed.): documenta 12 education II
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Carmen Mörsch (ed.)

documenta 12 education II
Between Critical Practice and Visitor Services Results of a Research Project

Translated by Nathaniel McBride, Karen Michelsen Castañón, Laura Schleussner and Erik Smith

Softcover, 374 pages

PDF, 374 pages

»Cultural Education« is much debated. It is pivotal in sustaining a sense of community in a society that is constantly shifting. A space where differences can be explored, art exhibitions act as a superb medium for cultural and aesthetic education. They don‘t aspire to peace and harmony but to stage controversy. They enable multiple models of communication, open to dissent and rupture.

Education is situated in tension between public sphere and institution, amateur and professional, artist and audience. Its development needs felicitous examples as well as rigor in discussing problems towards identifying practical solutions.

»documenta 12 education« presents in two illustrated volumes the education formats with concomitant research, providing a basis for developing theory and praxis of gallery education.

These volumes are an ideal resource for people working in the fields of curating exhibitions, gallery education, youth work and cultural policy. People less familiar with cultural work will find in these books a valuable introduction to the field of gallery education.

Volume 2 focuses on a theory of gallery education, its methods and contexts, and reflects theoretically on examples presented in Volume 1. It is addressed to professionals from the field of gallery education, cultural education and formal education.

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